Unlike $upstream_response_length that only counts the body size,
the new variable also counts the size of response header and data
received after switching protocols when proxying WebSockets.
This parameter lets binding the proxy connection to a non-local address.
Upstream will see the connection as coming from that address.
When used with $remote_addr, upstream will accept the connection from real
client address.
Example:
proxy_bind $remote_addr transparent;
By default, requests with non-idempotent methods (POST, LOCK, PATCH)
are no longer retried in case of errors if a request was already sent
to a backend. Previous behaviour can be restored by using
"proxy_next_upstream ... non_idempotent".
The directive toggles conversion of HEAD to GET for cacheable proxy requests.
When disabled, $request_method must be added to cache key for consistency.
By default, HEAD is converted to GET as before.
The r->request_body_no_buffering flag was introduced. It instructs
client request body reading code to avoid reading the whole body, and
to call post_handler early instead. The caller should use the
ngx_http_read_unbuffered_request_body() function to read remaining
parts of the body.
Upstream module is now able to use this mode, if configured with
the proxy_request_buffering directive.
The configuration handling code has changed to look similar to the proxy_store
directive and friends. This simplifies adding variable support in the following
patch.
No functional changes.
Once this age is reached, the cache lock is discarded and another
request can acquire the lock. Requests which failed to acquire
the lock are not allowed to cache the response.
The new directives {proxy,fastcgi,scgi,uwsgi,memcached}_next_upstream_tries
and {proxy,fastcgi,scgi,uwsgi,memcached}_next_upstream_timeout limit
the number of upstreams tried and the maximum time spent for these tries
when searching for a valid upstream.
Previous code in ngx_http_upstream_send_response() used last modified time
from r->headers_out.last_modified_time after the header filter chain was
already called. At this point, last_modified_time may be already cleared,
e.g., with SSI, resulting in incorrect last modified time stored in a
cache file. Fix is to introduce u->headers_in.last_modified_time instead.
These directives allow to switch on Server Name Indication (SNI) while
connecting to upstream servers.
By default, proxy_ssl_server_name is currently off (that is, no SNI) and
proxy_ssl_name is set to a host used in the proxy_pass directive.
The following new directives are introduced: proxy_cache_revalidate,
fastcgi_cache_revalidate, scgi_cache_revalidate, uwsgi_cache_revalidate.
Default is off. When set to on, they enable cache revalidation using
conditional requests with If-Modified-Since for expired cache items.
As of now, no attempts are made to merge headers given in a 304 response
during cache revalidation with headers previously stored in a cache item.
Headers in a 304 response are only used to calculate new validity time
of a cache item.
The parameter is mostly identical to http_404, and is expected to
be used in similar situations. The 403 code might be returned by
a backend instead of 404 on initial sync of new directories with rsync.
See here for feature request and additional details:
http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-ru/2013-April/050920.html
This allows to proxy WebSockets by using configuration like this:
location /chat/ {
proxy_pass http://backend;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
}
Connection upgrade is allowed as long as it was requested by a client
via the Upgrade request header.
The "proxy_bind", "fastcgi_bind", "uwsgi_bind", "scgi_bind" and
"memcached_bind" directives are now inherited; inherited value
can be reset by the "off" parameter. Duplicate directives are
now detected. Parameter value can now contain variables.
Upstreams created by "proxy_pass" with IP address and no port were
broken in 1.3.10, by not initializing port in u->sockaddr.
API change: ngx_parse_url() was modified to always initialize port
(in u->sockaddr and in u->port), even for the u->no_resolve case;
ngx_http_upstream() and ngx_http_upstream_add() were adopted.
New directives: proxy_cache_lock on/off, proxy_cache_lock_timeout. With
proxy_cache_lock set to on, only one request will be allowed to go to
upstream for a particular cache item. Others will wait for a response
to appear in cache (or cache lock released) up to proxy_cache_lock_timeout.
Waiting requests will recheck if they have cached response ready (or are
allowed to run) every 500ms.
Note: we intentionally don't intercept NGX_DECLINED possibly returned by
ngx_http_file_cache_read(). This needs more work (possibly safe, but needs
further investigation). Anyway, it's exceptional situation.
Note: probably there should be a way to disable caching of responses
if there is already one request fetching resource to cache (without waiting
at all). Two possible ways include another cache lock option ("no_cache")
or using proxy_no_cache with some supplied variable.
Note: probably there should be a way to lock updating requests as well. For
now "proxy_cache_use_stale updating" is available.
Previous use of size_t may cause wierd effects on 32bit platforms with certain
big responses transferred in unbuffered mode.
Nuke "if (size > u->length)" check as it's not usefull anyway (preread
body data isn't subject to this check) and now requires additional check
for u->length being positive.
